All posts for the month March, 2014

When Nintendo announced that Game Boy Advance titles would be coming to the Virtual Console on Wii U, it was generally presumed that Nintendo would announce them for the Virtual Console for the 3DS at some point too.

It looks as though Japan will be getting Donkey Kong Land for the Game Boy Virtual Console on Nintendo 3DS next week for 411 Yen. The Donkey Kong Country games were mysteriously pulled from the Wii Virtual Console, so hopefully we may see the return of the trilogy.

Sega have revealed that Out Run is the eleventh 3D Classic title for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan. The news was spotted by NeoGaf member Hero of Legend. The main 3D Classics site currently redirects to the Fantasy Zone page, but we should get confirmation from the company soon.

Super Metroid is 20 years old today, having been released in Japan on 19th March 1994. It’s a title that would go on to be one of a number of iconic, memorable experiences on the 16-bit machine, and is still revered to this day.

Millions of dollars. Wild parties. Lawsuit. Corporate Mergers. A slow, sad death. This is the story of Atari.

To those born into the console era, whose formative gaming education came from Nintendo, Sega, or PlayStation, Atari feels like an amorphous presence in the world of videogames: a once-important name that has been diluted by countless mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies. A titan of the arcade era whose relevance had dwindled almost to nothingness by the turn of the millenium.